I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was...struggling with all the loss in her life.